Here are a few primetime program highlights for Sunday, September 5, 2010...happy viewing! Plenty of baseball, football, golf and tennis on this afternoon, also.
7 P.M. (WCBS) 60 MINUTES Medicare examined (Details in companion article about Network News programs))
8 P.M. (Style) JERSEYLICIOUS A second round of big hair and even bigger attitudes begins as Gayle Giacomo and Christy Pereira, the mother-daughter owners of Gatsby Salon in Green Brook, N.J., try to keep their stable of feisty beautifiers — including the makeup artist Olivia Blois Sharpe and her arch rival, the hair stylist Tracy DiMarco — under control. “Mel B: It’s a Scary World,” a new series at 9, follows the former Spice Girl Melanie Brown as she rides the roller coaster of fame and motherhood.
9 P.M. (MyNetwork TV) THE 45TH ANNUAL JERRY LEWIS MDA TELETHON Mr. Lewis, working to the theme “Make a Muscle, Make a Difference,” is raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in this traditional Labor Day event, broadcast from the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas. The guest list includes David Archuleta, Enrique Iglesias, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Barry Manilow, Nigel Lythgoe and Richard Belzer. The telethon last year raised more than $60 million in pledges and contributions.
9 P.M. (HGTV) ALL AMERICAN HANDYMAN Don’t let the title fool you. Five women will join 15 men to compete in an assortment of fix-it challenges in this search for the country’s best nonprofessional Jack (or Jill) of all trades. The grand prize: a $10,000 shopping spree at Sears and a development deal with HGTV. The contest begins as the 20 finalists (one, Matthew McGuire, is above) are winnowed to 10 after their ingenuity and construction skills are sized up by the show’s judges, Mike Holmes and Scott McGillivray. The guest judge is Bill Kiss, the chief marketing officer for tools and hardware for Sears. After the first cut, the remaining competitors will undertake a challenge in which they must identify the elements of a botched construction job; a power-tool test to determine their accuracy at measuring and cutting; and a trivia quiz. Molly Culver hosts. And Part 1 of Mr. Holmes’s new two-episode special, “Lien on Me,” in which he helps a couple whose contractor has walked off the job, leads in at 8.
9 P.M. (WNET 13) INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES III: THE DEAD OF WINTER The discovery of the body of an Oxford history professor on a bus leads Lewis (Kevin Whately) and his sidekick, Detective Sgt. James Hathaway (Laurence Fox), to Crevecoeur Hall, a vast estate where Hathaway spent much of his childhood, in this “Masterpiece Mystery!” presentation. Nathaniel Parker (above right, with Richard Johnson) (“The Inspector Lynley Mysteries”) plays the estate owner’s nephew, who’s a little too close to his uncle’s much-younger wife (Juliet Aubrey) for comfort.
9 P.M. (Discovery) 9/11: AFTER THE TOWERS FELL First responders describe navigating the rubble at ground zero and the race to rescue survivors.
9 P.M. (AMC) RUBICON A security breach at the American Policy Institute forces the F.B.I. to put the organization on lockdown. Meanwhile, Katherine (Miranda Richardson) decides that she is no longer safe in her home. In “Mad Men,” at 10, a deadline incites chaos at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
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